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Alan Christie - ICS - 20% reduction in print costs and 2m sheets of paper saved
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20% Reduction of Costs, 2 million sheets of paper saved.
How?
Overview of session
• Changing Face of education
• Challenges of modern IT
• Challenges for Westminster Kingsway
• Benchmarking
• The Process
• The Model
• The System
• Results
• Conclusions
The Changing Face of Education
• 100 years of education
• From pencil to laptop
• The drain on resources
• Drain on time
• Increasing demand
• We all want everything now
• What impact does this have on the college?
The Modern Face of Education
• State of the art
• Environmental
• Flexible
• Management control
• Efficient
• Intelligent Solutions
The Challenges of modern IT
• Greater capabilities
• Demands of students
• Easily accessible to all
• Perceived low cost
• It is too easy
Challenges for Westminster Kingsway
• Volume of print and copy
• Cost to manage process
• Attitude of staff
• Attitude of students
• The Environment
Benchmarking
• Audit your current system
• Benchmark your current system
• How much paper do you use now?
• What is the cost of your toner cartridges?
• Make sure you get the right organisation
to do the audit – Independent is best
The Process
• Current system assessment
• Staff consultation
• Roll out Planning
• Installation and commissioning
• Review and monitoring of performance
The Model
• Incumbent system– Students paid for copying using smart cards
– Staff copying was not monitored or restricted
– All printing was unregulated, using “natural ceiling” of devices to limit what could be printed
– Students provided an allowance, but frequently sought to increase this quota
The New System
• Pcounter Print & Copy management solution
• Card Reader Terminals
• XPR Enterprise® Reports
• Streamlining of devices.
• Provide a single card solution
• Cost Savings– Immediate vs. long term
– Reduce budgets
– Imagine how many jobs could be saved?
• User Experience– Ease of implementation
– Solution is easily scalable
– No changes require in existing infrastructure
– Pull printing
Benefits to Organisation
Initial Results
• Year 1
– 2 million pieces of paper saved
– 25 % saving in print volumes
– Estimated cost saving £50,000
Results
• Phase 2 – implementation across all sites
• Reduce print volume by over 7 million copies across all sites
• Reduce costs by over £150,000 pa
The Environmental Impact
• 80,500 sheets of paper is the equivalent to one tree– Given the average pine tree is 300mm in dia and 18m long
• WKC will save over 87 trees a year
• Over 20 years, this is more than 1,740 trees
• And this is only a small college!
Conclusions
• We all need to manage costs
• We need to reduce our environmental impact
• We need to become more efficient
• We cannot afford to ignore this type of system
Thank You
Questions?